The Mockingcast
The Mockingcast
Mockingbird
Episode 291: Happiness Weighs an Extra Twenty Pounds
1 hour 2 minutes Posted Mar 2, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk affective forecasting, fantasy literature, workplace mattering, and collapsed demands. Also, a punk rocker gets a miracle bus ticket, and the ice monster comes for our kids.

  • Click here to register for the Spring Mbird Conference in NYC (4/23-25)
  • Click here to listen to Sarah's sermon "I Like Your Dancing", delivered at RJ's church.
  • Click here to read "Most of Us Are Bad at Predicting What Will Make Us Happy" by Ruston Dodd on The Athletic.
  • Click here to read Francis Spufford's defense of fantasy in The Guardian.
  • Click here to read The Up and Up's interview with Jennifer Breheny Wallace about Gen Z and Mattering.
  • Click here to read about "The Three Quarter Life Crisis" by Rob Myallis on Mbird.
  • Click here to read "What Remains When Nothing Can Be Done" by Kyle Wells on Mbird.